The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-25
THE TRIALS OF 1T.
Bill Nye's Friends Journalist
tic Experience.
THE CORRECTION OF AN ERRoB
The Msnnsr In watch an Article II
Dashed on In an Idle
Moment.

Ou pOHEU u Jay .COACH IuHuiuR IfOm
the Battery via Sixty Avenue to Harlem
1 fell in the other day with a highly
cultivated gentleman who now resides
in Brooklyn. Together weenioyed the
delightful stretch of dark-red scenery
and advertisements which greets the
enrsptured eye along this great scenic
route. Together We inhaled the
thousand odors of hot, sour alleys and
damp cellars, and together we looked
into the second-story rooms where
poverty lay painting in the awful heat
that had accumulated all day and now
shut down with the night like sitting
garment. aee Iac.s III
He said something and then 1
said something, and before long we were
conversing with each other. A great
many conversations have no doubt
originated this'way. l.u
incidentally we got to talking about
the press and what great influence it
welded, and SO forth, and then he said
that if 1 would never mention his name
he would tell me,of an incident that
| occurred some years ago when he first
came to New York. He said:
81 generally aim to let the papers
alone if they II let me alone, but when 1
first came here friend of mine brought
me slip that he had cut out of
prominent morning paper in which my
nan was used in way that made me
mad. While there was no gross mis-
statement of facts, my name was
handled in way despise, and so |
went right down to the office of the
paper. Before 1 went told my wife
about the piece and that 1 was going
down to see about it. She saw that I
was excited and she became alarmed.
She hung on to me quite while and
said she wished wouldn't go. Wehad
always got along so well, and since we
had been married l had never killed
anybody, and she wished would take
her advice and not go, but was
thoroughly indignant and mad. So
went down and at the counter l asked
to see the editor. r....
The young man at the window where
went was counting the words in a
Want advertisement, and it was long
time before could get his eye. Then
editorial rooms were on the fifth floor.
did not like his way, and 1 would
have been glad to lick him if I could
have got over into his cage, but |
couldn't. Then l went to the elevator.
Twas going to get in, but the elevator
boy, who weighed about nineteen
pounds, put his hand against my person
and gently pushed me out.
y You can't 60 up stairs without start
ing your name and your bushes and
who you want to see. Here is a card
that you can fill out .
| knew my own name of course and
could pat that on the card; also my
business, but 1 didn't know the name
of blamed man on the paper. ALI
that l could do was to state that |
wanted to see the editor That was
kind of general statement, but thought |
it would be all right. Meantime the |
elevator had made several trips and |
could feel my collar getting soft. Twas
still mad, but l had to control myself, |
so asked tie elevator boy if he would |
mind taking that up to the editor, and 1 |
gave him the card.
He said l would have to be more ex-
plicit. If I wanted the city editor, or
the marine editor, or the literary editor, |
vi fgA4C pun Co4UO1y VI GA1C vi hlu QCd Ill |
editor, or the scrapping editor, would |
find them in, but the managing editor |
and the telegraph, editor and the night |
editor and 1.-The mirth editor and the |
bathing editor were all out.
] did not know who ought to see,
but I.got desperate and sent my card |
up to the scrapping editor. 1t was a |
wild thing to do, but 1 did it, for l |
thought l,could, see him, and if l did |
not feel like fighting him | could post
pone it the way other pugilists did.
[ had to wait quite while before l |
could see the lighting editor. for he was |
busy with some other men who, l pre-
sumo, had dropped in to lick him early, |
SO as to be horfie for lunch "a nv %
Finally Invent in and found small, |
good-natured man that could have !
handled without any trouble, but when |
stated my business he said that it was
not in his line at all, but that ought to
go to the city editor, By that time the /
city editor had gone to lunch. / waited |
for him till got so hungry myself that
1 thought would fall apart.
When he came he had about nineteen
men to talk to all at once for an hour
or so ; then he letme in and told him
what the trouble was. He didn't
any such story in the paper
as spoke about, but would find out
about it and see what reporter handed